Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos

Sep 2011 – Dec 2011 · 3 mos

• Was responsible for 51 direct reports (operators); and coordination of multi-disciplinary experts
• Got the opportunity to practice:
• o Operational excellence tools: Root cause analysis, 5-S, etc
• o People management: leading teams to successful results
• Reduced downstream downtime by >50%

Jan 2011 – Sep 2011 · 8 mos

• Was responsible for Production planning on shift to ensure shift production targets, prioritizing based on Market demand
• Developed & Implemented real-time visual monitoring system to ensure conformation to plan by:
• o Giving real-time update on current production rate versus the planned target
• o Reporting operations inactivity (due to lack of materials, manpower, etc)
• Developed & implemented planning system for Supplier shop, enabling planning at operator level

Jan 2010 – Dec 2010 · 11 mos

• January 2010 – December 2010 (1 year) Anderson, South Carolina, USA
• WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS (co-Project Leader), American Synthetic Rubber Company
• Used Data Analysis to Optimize Inventory Storage; reduced operational costs
• Developed & Implemented VBA based Warehouse Management System (WMS) & Inventory Deployment system
• Also proposed Long term operational change strategy with huge annual operational cost savings
• FLOW AND TRACEABILITY PILOT, Michelin Semi – Finished Division
• Proposed RFID tags based Inventory Tracking for reducing costs and Improving quality
• Developed: Material flow changes, Handheld and desktop systems for inventory tracking & analysis
• Designed Planning system to improve material flow and reduce downtime & costs
• Also, created automated downtime tracking system for the post
• LAB OPERATIONS, Michelin Semi – Finished Division
• Proposed modified operations model, with savings in operations cost

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos

• REPLENISHMENT PLANNING for 30 Warehouses: Developed Data Extraction and Refinement module from SAP (Data Mining) for supply from 3 production locations. Led to reduction in time spent by 60%.
• SERVICE LEVEL OPTIMIZATION: Analyzed and tested regression based forecasting methodology, built VBA based forecasting module. Tests showed more than 70% reduction in inventory at warehouses, with same fill rates.
• Developed TRANSPORT MODE SELECTION module (Prototype), for making dispatches automatically.

Aug 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

• PATIENT SCHEDULING MODEL – Da Vita, Georgia Institute of Technology Fall’09
• Built VBA based prototype capable of scheduling, while incorporating several patient, doctor and facility constraints
• SYSTEM MODELING, SIMULATION & OPTIMIZATION - BMW Manufacturing, Georgia Institute of Technology Fall’09
• Interfaced several platforms using SysML: analysis software (MS Excel), database (MS Access) and simulation model (MATLAB - Simulink)
• Demonstrated the ability of above model in optimizing Customer – Supplier WIP inventory at BMW, South Carolina.
• SUPPLY CHAIN & WAREHOUSE STRATEGY, United Technologies, Georgia Institute of Technology Spring’09
• Optimization of Southern European Supply Chain operations by extensive data analysis of sales history, distribution locations, etc
• Created easy to use and reliable forecasting model for warehouse inventory decisions and analyzed warehousing network structure
• Test showed cut in inventory held by 3 Million Euros and savings of more than 500,000 Euros annually
• DATA ANALYSIS, Georgia Institute of Technology Spring’09
• Worked on projects dealing with implementation of Statistical methods on computer:
• Tracking returns of NASDAQ by using a number of stocks via construction of regression model in R
• Calculating Shortest Confidence interval via implementing double layer bisection approach in MATLAB
• Fitting a spline to determine missing data on the historical prices of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in MATLAB
• WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS, Global Cold Chain Alliance - Americold, Georgia Institute of Technology Fall’08
• Developed methodology for Optimizing Inventory of Forward Pick area, in to reduce picking operational costs
• Simulation demonstrated savings of more than 10% in labor hours spent.

Jun 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos · Newcastle University & GGS Indraprastha University

• Lab scale data collection of the process
• Scale up analysis and calculations
• Industrial scale simulation of the process using Aspen Tech.
• Cost-benefit analysis, yielding Economic feasibility report.